[Fedora-packaging] How to handle unversioned upstream tarballs?

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Thu Aug 28 20:43:15 UTC 2008


I was working on bug 452636 ( 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452636 ), and reached an 
impasse.

One of my last reviews (from Joe Orton) said:

> non-formal review:
> > > 
> > > 4) Source: http://apache.webthing.com/mod_proxy_html/mod_proxy_html.tgz
> > > is bad - do upstream not provide versioned URLs?
>   
> > 
> > Unfortunately, they do not.
>   
>
> upstream should be educated then  ;) 
>
> You'll need to work around that and version the tarball manually, I think this
> is covered in the wiki somewhere.
>   

Well, I've (a) tried to get the owners to rename the tarball with an 
embedded version number, so far without success, and (b) went looking 
through the maintainers wiki on how to handle cases where the tarball 
isn't versioned (and it must be done manually) but didn't find it.

Can someone point me in the correct direction?

Thanks,

-Philip





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